Ceremony Talks

A ceremony (UK: , US: ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.

The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin caerimonia.

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Why We Have So Many Problems

Serial: SR-00153

Tuesday, March 2, 1971
8 am Tuesday Morning
San Francisco

difficulty, Ceremony, Concentration, reality, Addiction, sitting, Ego, confusion,...
Mar 02 1971
City Center

Resuming Big Mind

Serial: SR-00272

Sesshin Lecture No. 1
Friday, February 5, 1971
San Francisco

[”For this seven-day sesshin, there are only transcriptions for lectures given on Days 1, 3, 5,...

Sesshin, Big Mind, Hate, stubbornness, Zoom, sitting, Zazen, Anger, Ceremony, heart,...
Feb 05 1971
City Center

What Is Self?

Ceremony, Observe, sitting
Jan 03 1971
City Center

Japan Now: Zazen As Our Foundation

Serial: SR-00072

Lecture after Trip to Japan:
Sunday, December 13, 1970

Transmission, Culture, sitting, Meditation, Ceremony, American
Dec 13 1970

November 20th, 1970, Serial No. 00065

Soto Zen, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Building, Zendo, soto, Continuous, Describe...
Nov 20 1970

September 22nd, 1970, Serial No. 00173

Fasting, Chanting, Vows, Precepts, difficulty, Hate, Separation, Culture, Lay,...
Sep 22 1970

September 15th, 1970, Serial No. 00309

lecture, Posture, Hate, Bowing, Mahayana, Ceremony, Religion, realization, Pain...
Sep 15 1970

September 13th, 1970, Serial No. 00308

Ceremony, Chanting, Buddha Nature, Posture, Lay, Bowing, Oneness, Culture, Describe,...
Sep 13 1970

Lay Ordination Ceremony

Serial: SR-00069-B

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #25, by Shundo David Haye =====

This tape, which is unfortunately very poorly recorded, gives us a sense of the lay ordination...

Precepts, Ceremony, Commitment
Aug 23 1970
City Center

Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson

Serial: SR-00069-A

Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript.

Priest, Ceremony, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Greed, Interview,...
Aug 09 1970
City Center

Observation of Precepts and Practice of Zazen is Same Thing

Serial: SF-06049

Sesshin Lecture No. 1
Saturday, August 1, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts, Precepts, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Faith, Ceremony, Ordination, Lay,...
Aug 01 1970
City Center

July 30th, 1970, Serial No. 00170

Repentance, Building, Liberation, Balance, American, Oneness, Obstacles, Chanting,...
Jul 30 1970

How To Understand Rituals And Precepts

Serial: SR-00063

Zazen, Rituals And Precepts Cannot Be Separated
Sunday Evening, July 26, 1970
San Francisco

Precepts, Precepts, Gratitude, Priest, Observe, Ceremony, American, Silence,...
Jul 26 1970
City Center

July 14th, 1970, Serial No. 00197

Observe, Sangha, causation, Bowing, Obstacles, Hindrances, Describe, Ceremony,...
Jul 14 1970

Ekō Lecture 5

Serial: SR-00231

The Third Morning Eko
Monday, July 13, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the fifth in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted at the conclusion of...

Eko, Chanting, Buddha Ancestors, Transmission, Building, Bodhidharma, Sutra,...
Jul 13 1970
Tassajara

June 29th, 1970, Serial No. 00235

Meditation, Describe, Chanting, Ceremony, lecture
Jun 29 1970

Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple

Serial: SF-05995

This is the bulk of the ceremony, with speakers other than Suzuki Roshi, in Japanese and English

training, Gratitude, Zoom, Ceremony, Obstacles, Observe, Silence, Enemies, Evil,...
Apr 25 1970
City Center

Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple

Serial: SF-05996

These are Suzuki Roshi's words, edited together out of longer recording of ceremony.

Ceremony, Offering
Apr 25 1970
City Center

OLD - How To Have Sincere Practice

Serial: 70-04-25A

Part of the opening ceremony for Page St - there are other pieces of audio from this event - SDH

Ceremony, Building, War
Apr 25 1970
A
City Center

OLD - Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple

Ceremony,
Apr 25 1970
City Center

Buddha's Birthday Lecture

Ceremony, Ceremony
Apr 12 1970
City Center

OLD - Buddha's Birthday

Serial: SF-05386B

70 #5 - Buddha's Birthday 2-4-70

Buddha's Birthday, Ceremony
Apr 12 1970
City Center

April 9th, 1970, Serial No. 00199

Religion, Pain, Happiness, Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, Meditation, Passions, Enemies,...
Apr 09 1970

April 7th, 1970, Serial No. 00200

Happiness, Religion, Repentance, Intention, Bell, Ceremony, Attachment, Fasting, Vows...
Apr 07 1970

Selflessness, Being and Non-Being: The Background of Shikantaza

Serial: SR-00261

Sesshin Lecture No. 1:
Monday, February 23, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Evil, Mahayana, Posture, Freedom, Continuous,...
Feb 23 1970
City Center

February 1970 talk, Serial No. 00207

Pain, Suffering, Describe, Compassion, Hate, Transmission, Ceremony, Meditation...
Feb 1970

Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley

Ceremony, Priest, Ceremony, Describe, American
Jan 11 1970
City Center

OLD - Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley

Serial: SF-06095

Undated lecture (file 1/11/71) ordination?

Ceremony, Observe, Priest
Jan 11 1970
City Center

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SF-05964

Friday, December 5, 1969

Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer
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File name: 69-12-05N: untitled level low. [Verbatim transcript not...

Ceremony, Shosan, Sixth Patriarch, Big Mind, Letting Go, Separation, Attachment,...
Dec 05 1969
Tassajara

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6

Sesshin, Ceremony, Freedom, Observe, Wisdom, Oneness, Beginners, training, Precepts,...
Dec 04 1969
Tassajara

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5

Serial: SR-00202

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5
Wednesday, December 3, 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Bodhisattva, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Oneness, Ceremony, Precepts, Wisdom...
Dec 03 1969
Tassajara

November 30th, 1969, Serial No. 00039

Ceremony, Delusion, American, Religion
Nov 30 1969

October 25th, 1969, Serial No. 00038

Greed, Funeral, training, Observe, Ceremony, lecture, Suffering, American
Oct 25 1969

October 7th, 1969, Serial No. 00033

Silence, difficulty, Meditation, Buddha Mind, Enemies, Buddha Nature, Discrimination...
Oct 07 1969

Why I Came to America

Serial: SR-00157

"Why I became a priest"

Memories of his father as a temple priest. Wanting to be an unusual priest himself, to teach people. Training at a temple with Oka...

Priest, Meiji, Japan, Dogen, Priest, training, New Year, Ceremony, Obstacles, Enemies...
Sep 16 1969
Sokoji

Sesshin, Sixth Night Lecture

Serial: SR-00129

Tassajara
September, 1969

Sesshin, Don't Know Mind, Posture, Ceremony, Addiction, Duality, Beginners,...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

July 22nd, 1969, Serial No. 00028

Concentration, Monastic Practice, Ceremony, Delusion, Meditation, Instruction,...
Jul 22 1969

It Is Rather Difficult For Us To Figure Out Why We Started To Practice Zazen

Serial: SR-00023

Tuesday, July 1, 1969
Tassajara

American, Freedom, Priest, zen, Offering, Religion, Culture, Ceremony, difficulty,...
Jul 01 1969
Tassajara

June 28th, 1969, Serial No. 00017

Ceremony, Observe, Delusion, Meditation
Jun 28 1969

June 10th, 1969, Serial No. 00081

Dharma Transmission, Transmission, realization, Ceremony, difficulty, Mandala, soto...
Jun 10 1969

April 18th, 1969, Serial No. 00014

Obstacles, Tassajara, Intention, Vows, Ceremony, training
Apr 18 1969

April 12th, 1969, Serial No. 00025

Monastic Practice, Patience, Offering, Buddha Mind, Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, Continuous...
Apr 12 1969

1969, Serial No. 00023

Ceremony, Silence, Buddha Nature, Delusion, Meditation, Echo, Passions, causation,...
1969

1969, Serial No. 00024

Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Delusion, causation, Greed, Nirvana, Anger, Lay,...
1969

OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7

Serial: 68-10-00-F

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Suffering, Truth, Emptiness, Precepts, Wisdom, Pain, Mahayana, Ceremony...
Oct 30 1968
Series 2, Talk 7
Tassajara

OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-6

Serial: 68-10-00-E

Hidden as we had a misdated reel that corresponded to this transcript - SDH

October 1968
[?Transcript in progress. Needs further work, checking. Words in doubt...

Precepts, Wisdom, War, Zazen, Ceremony, Sutra, sitting
Oct 30 1968
Series 2, Talk 6
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-10

Serial: SR-00002

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, sitting, Ceremony, Emptiness, Priest, Funeral, Composure, heart, Monks,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 10
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-11

Serial: SF-05251

October 1968
New version uploaded, should help with transcript

Lotus Sutra, Lay, Emptiness, Interview, Ceremony
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 11
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7

Serial: SF-06043

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Mahayana, Precepts, Nirvana, Enemies,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 7
Tassajara

Observing the Precepts

Serial: SF-05397

This is the second talk that Suzuki Roshi gave at Esalen on consecutive nights in June 1968.

Precepts, Precepts, Observe, Teacher-and-Student, Ego, Posture, Karma, training,...
Jun 29 1968
Esalen

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